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The smell of fresh coffee permeates through the vibrations of the morning meditation. Ancient blessings from Erin’s verdant hills roll o’er my Mala beads. Smooth pearls slip across my hand as the waves slipped out to sea on past vacations, revealing the shells now arranged on my desk. The sand begins to drip in the day’s hourglass, but my day begins with a calm, clear sea.

Like this:

Hope you enjoy my photo story down the trail to Fairy Falls at Yellowstone National Park as part of today’s Daily Prompt: Isn’t Your Face Red. Just follow the red sign at the fork and don’t forget the sunscreen.

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – the White Queen, Alice in Wonderland.

What are the six impossible things you believe in? (If you can only manage one or two, that’s also okay.)

Well, I didn’t follow the prompt, but I did continue my re-imagination of Alice in Wonderland Tale. As far as 6 Impossible things I believe in:

1) Magic-And I’m not necessarily talking about voodoo, though I wouldn’t mess with that, but they say love is the most powerful of all magic and that is good enough for me. Did you know there is good voodoo and bad voodoo. Gotta check.

2) We Can Do It!-I believe that one day women will truly be equal in the STEM fields (and maybe even dominate some). We’ve come a long way, buy we still have a ways to go.

3) Not one straight line in the timeline of history. I might have to draw a picture sometime for that one on the Maria story.

4) I believe it is possible to engineer new ways to feed, water, house, clothe, and provide energy for over 8 billion people on this planet without mining resources from other sources in the solar system. (I’m kinda an optimist-but I’m not oppose to exploring new sites, I would be one of the first to sign up.)

5) I believe in a higher power-whether that be God or the heavens or what, I don’t know and I’m not sure that we’re meant to know for sure, so I’m not going to worry over it.

“Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?”

Despite the pounding in my head, I lingered a bit longer watching the humans clink glasses and sample bits of what appeared to be food off of large shiny metal disks. I was fascinated by their actions. Usually humans came out to sea to capture fish or ride large heavy vessels long distances, but these humans appeared to be celebrating.

“Will you get down here now before you get both of us in trouble?!”

“Do you think we could serve food on large shells like that at Mara’s birthday?”

Take a quote from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your post. Now, write!

Oh to pick just one movie and just one quote was too difficult. But I am planning a trip to Disneyland in a couple of weeks and my favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid. So here is a mermaid tale for you today.

How women survived throughout the trials of history remains a mystery to me.

My friends and I down on hour costumes for the Renaissance Festival last summer in the hottest of heat with every intention of seeing all the Faire sights and doing a little shopping. We even tried our hand with some of the period weaponry much to our dismay.
We made sure we included breaks from the sun and heat by venturing into the catacombs, seeing the king’s court, and having tea with the Queen. We are ladies after all. Completing a day adventure, called for wine and the customary turkey leg.

Since this is the first challenge in Phoneography Month you know it has to involve a photo, but no worries — it’s still an equal-opportunity challenge; no fancy phone required.For this challenge, we want to see a photo of someone looking truly happy.

Wall Street trading closed early Friday after spiraling out of control on reports that US Natural Gas loads and reserves are expected to dry up in the next fifteen (15) years, much earlier than anticipated. Some are calling the crash the Second Modern Black Friday. No sign as to when the Stock exchange will reopen. Regulators are being selective and secretive prior to reopening the markets. Analysts (including this one) aren’t holding their breaths and do not expect a quick change in the markets on the latest abysmal energy sector news. Many in the energy sector point the finger at a combination of increasing environmental restrictions and user power demands due to technology hunger and recent cold winters. Environmental experts rebut by claiming that the energy sector sings “same hook” without data to back it up. Already the murmurs of “bailout” and “stimulus” can be heard in the deep, dark, dank, corridors of Washington. Sounds like the tax payers will end up picking up the tab on this one yet again with nothing to show for it. Whatever happened to all that “green” energy from the 2000’s? One piece of advice I do have for all of you on Main Street (what’s left of it), don’t procrastinate, get you financial back up plan in order now. And while you’re at, grab a couple matches–you’re going to need them.